Community members working in the aftermath of Charlotte’s failed LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinances effort have released a survey they hope will help gauge experiences of anti-LGBT discrimination in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said Monday morning that he won’t be signing a controversial bill allowing magistrates and other officials to opt out of serving LGBT people seeking civil marriage services.

Hugs, tears and memories were shared on Sunday as three dozen community members and friends came together to celebrate the life of Blake Brockington, a transgender teen activist who died as the result of suicide on March 23.

On April 18, the sounds of music and laughter will fill the historic Mint Museum Randolph as Hearts Beat as One Foundation presents its inaugural Founders’ Ball — the first annual fundraising event planned by the organization.

The leader of North Carolina’s NAACP and founder of the state’s Moral Monday movement shared a message of collaboration and fusion politics at a conference of LGBT journalists, editors and bloggers from around the country in mid March.

We’re fast approaching April. Spring is fresh upon us, and with the weather increasingly warming up, so will the local political scene. In the fall — September to be exact — voters in Charlotte will head out for their first opportunity to choose possible new leaders for City Council, among other offices.

There seems to be an undercurrent of anger towards John Autry and LaWana Mayfield by some within the local LGBT community for their votes against the gutted non-discrimination ordinance rejected by City Council on March 2.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on March 18 filed a resolution seeking to overturn the District of Columbia’s 2014 Human Rights Amendment Act that protects LGBT students from discrimination at D.C. based religious schools.

A reader asks: “I recently discovered that I might be bisexual. I’ve been gay forever, but something inside of me is just suddenly very interested in the opposite sex. I don’t want to convert, I just want to try it. How do I start?”

Long expected by LGBT advocates, Republican legislators in North Carolina this week introduced so-called “religious freedom” bills that could open the door to widespread discrimination against LGBT residents and others.

On Stands Now

QNotes celebrates its annual Young LGBT Professionals issue profiling several young leaders in our "Faces of the Future" cover feature. Plus, Hearts Beat as One Foundation preps for its inaugural Founders' Ball, and news from around the city, region and nation.